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  • Maiko Masquerade

    Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan

    by Jan Bardsley ...
    Maiko Masquerade explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other popular media as an icon of exemplary girlhood. Jan Bardsley traces how the maiko, long stigmatized as a victim of sexual exploitation, emerges in the 2000s as the chaste keeper of Kyoto’s classical artistic traditions. Insider accounts by maiko and geisha, their leaders and fans, show ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan

    by Jan Bardsley ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
    Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan offers a fresh perspective on gender politics by focusing on the Japanese housewife of the 1950s as a controversial representation of democracy, leisure, and domesticity. Examining the shifting personae of the housewife, especially in the appealing texts of women's magazines, reveals the diverse possibilities of postwar democracy as they were embedded in media ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Manners and Mischief

    Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan

    Edited by Jan Bardsley, Laura Miller ...
    Offering a concise, entertaining snapshot of Japanese society, Manners and Mischief examines etiquette guides, advice literature, and other such instruction for behavior from the early modern period to the present day and discovers how manners do in fact make the nation. Eleven accessibly written essays consider a spectrum of cases, from the geisha party to gay bar cool, executive grooming, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    by Dani Cavallaro ...
    The thought-provoking, aesthetically pleasing animated films of Hayao Miyazaki attract audiences well beyond the director's native Japan. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were critically acclaimed upon U.S. release, and the earlier My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service have found popularity with Americans on DVD. This critical study of Miyazaki's work begins with an analysis of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Geek in Japan

    Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony (Revised and Expanded with New Topics)

    by Hector Garcia ...
    Created specifically for fans of Japanese "cool culture," A Geek in Japan is one of the most iconic, hip, and concise cultural guides available.This new edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded with new chapters on Japanese video games, architecture, and a special section on visiting Kyoto. Reinvented for the internet age, it's packed with personal essays and hundreds of photographs, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Soul of Anime

    Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story

    by Ian Condry ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studios—such as Madhouse, Gonzo, Aniplex, and Studio Ghibli—Condry discusses how anime's fictional characters and worlds become platforms for collaborative ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • One Taste

    Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality

    by Ken Wilber ...
    As one who has written extensively about the interior life, meditation, and psychotherapy, Ken Wilber—the leading theorist in the field of integral psychology—naturally arouses the curiosity of his numerous readers. In response to this curiosity, this one-year diary not only offers an unprecedented entrée into his private world, but offers an introduction to his essential thought. "If there is a ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

    by Matthew Carl Strecher ...
    In an “other world” composed of language—it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest—a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami’s characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts—people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Tokyo in Transit

    Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

    by Alisa Freedman ...
    Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Boys Love Manga and Beyond

    History, Culture, and Community in Japan

    Edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, James Welker ...
    Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation.In recent decades, “Boys Love” ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Mechademia 1

    Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga

    Edited by Frenchy Lunning ...
    After decades in which American popular culture dominated global media and markets, Japanese popular culture—primarily manga and anime, but also toys, card and video games, and fashion—has exploded into a worldwide phenomenon. From Pokémon and the Power Rangers to Paranoia Agent and Princess Mononoke, Japanese popular culture is consumed by an eager and exponentially increasing audience of youths, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Anime Explosion!

    The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation, Revised and Updated Edition

    by Patrick Drazen ...
    well-reviewed survey book now updated with current information and reviewsadopted as college text at Vanderbilt in Nashville, and U of Missouri St. Louisone of the few non-academic books that takes a generalist view of the subject, making it ideal for educators and people still new to the genre or looking for a generous overviewall artwork will be accessed via internet links from publisher's ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD